Date Posted: 2026-11-05 Country: United Kingdom Location: Harlow, Essex Position Role Type: Hybrid
At RTX, one of the world's largest aerospace and defence organisations, we're tackling some of the most complex engineering challenges on the planet. Through our market-leading businesses, advanced technologies and world-class engineering expertise, we deliver solutions that help protect nations, save lives and keep critical systems operating when they matter most. At Raytheon UK, you'll work alongside exceptional engineers and technical specialists, contributing to programmes that have real-world impact while advancing your own career in an environment that values innovation, collaboration and professional growth.
The Opportunity
We're looking for a Systems Certification Engineer to lead the planning, coordination and assurance of certification activities across Air Traffic Management Systems (ATMS). You'll play a critical role in ensuring our systems meet stringent regulatory and customer requirements, providing a robust and traceable demonstration of compliance throughout the engineering lifecycle. This is a highly visible role that sits at the heart of engineering delivery, working across Systems, Software, Hardware, Safety and Test teams to ensure products are designed, verified and certified with confidence.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead certification and compliance activities across complex ATMS programmes.
- Develop and maintain certification strategies, compliance plans and assurance frameworks.
- Identify applicable requirements, required evidence, dependencies and certification risks.
- Work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to define and gather compliance evidence.
- Review requirements, designs, verification and validation outputs to ensure compliance objectives have been met.
- Maintain clear traceability between requirements, verification activities and certification evidence.
- Coordinate certification activities through key lifecycle milestones including PDR, CDR, qualification, V&V and product acceptance.
- Support the development and independent review of key certification artefacts, including Declarations of Design and Performance (DDP).
- Act as the primary point of contact for certification matters across Engineering, System & Product Integrity, programme teams and customers.
- Proactively identify compliance risks and drive actions to resolution before they impact delivery.
What We're Looking For
- Experience in Systems Engineering across the full engineering lifecycle.
- Background in certification, compliance, design assurance or product assurance within a regulated engineering environment.
- Strong understanding of requirements management, system design, integration, verification, validation and qualification.
- Ability to assess complex engineering evidence and determine compliance against defined requirements.
- Experience developing compliance plans and managing associated certification evidence.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across engineering disciplines and customer organisations.
- Ability to balance technical, regulatory and programme delivery considerations.
- Degree qualified in Aerospace, Systems, Electronics or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) status is desirable.
Why RTX?
Work on mission-critical technologies that help protect and connect the world. Collaborate with some of the brightest minds in aerospace, defence and advanced engineering. Be part of programmes that combine technical complexity with genuine societal impact. Access excellent career development opportunities within a global technology leader.
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you're passionate about engineering assurance, certification and delivering complex systems in highly regulated environments, we'd love to hear from you.
RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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Systems Certification Engineer in Harlow employer: Prattwhitney
At Pratt & Whitney Canada, part of RTX, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture. With competitive benefits including private medical insurance, a fantastic pension scheme, and opportunities for professional growth, we empower our employees to excel in their roles while contributing to the future of aerospace and defense. Located in the UK, our team is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of technology and ensuring compliance in logistics and customs, making this a rewarding environment for those looking to make a meaningful impact.
